Various, Dead Fibres, Space Queen, The Adits, Less Miserable, Rebuild/Repair, Gone Cosmic, BRASS, Brain Bent, Ruiner, ak-747s

Vancouver Punk

The west-coast first wave that coined 'hardcore' — political, tuneful and absurdly early.

Detroit Proto-Punk

Pull this thread and you get Michigan guitar noise from 1969 ballrooms to 1999 basements, unbroken.